{"id":2500,"date":"2020-05-06T15:42:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T15:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=2500"},"modified":"2025-12-13T07:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:21:06","slug":"hold-your-hand-out-naughty-boy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/hold-your-hand-out-naughty-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hold your hand out naughty boy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Lyrics<\/strong><\/td>C.W. Murphy<\/strong> & Worton David<\/strong><\/td>Music<\/strong><\/td> C.W. Murphy<\/strong> & Worton David<\/strong><\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RNV24958<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Music Hall performers<\/strong><\/td>Florrie Forde 1910s<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>??<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
At the club one evening Jones was telling all his pals\nHow much he hated girls despite their golden girls\n\"You wouldn't catch me with a girl, you bet your life\" said he\n\"Girls possess no charms for me\"\nThen one chap there at Jones began to leer\nPicked up his cane and said to him, \"Come here\"\n\nChorus:<\/strong> \"Hold your hand out naughty boy\nHold your hand out naughty boy\nLast night in the pale moonlight\nI saw you, I saw you\nWith a nice girl in the Park\nYou were strolling full of joy\nAnd you told her you'd never kissed a girl before\nHold your hand out naughty boy.\"<\/em>\n\nBrown got down to breakfast, and his wife said to him\n\"What kept you late last night?\" He answered, \"That's all right,\nI stayed down at the office, dear, just for an hour or two\nI'd some pressing work to do\"\nJust then the saucy servant standing near\nBent down and whispered in his ear,\n\nSanctimonious Obadiah to sweetheart May one night\nThe tale was telling strong, said he, \"To flirt is wrong.\"\n\"And am I then the only girl you've loved?\" said darling May\nHe replied \"Yer, sister, Yer\"\nThen from beneath the sofa near the fire\nHer little brother shouted \"Obadiah.\"\n\nAll alone to Gay Paree on business went papa\nAnd when he landed back, his wife said, \"Tell me Jack,\nWhile you have been in Paris have you always thought of me?\"\n\"Always darling\", murmured he\n\"For you love I've been pining night and day\"\nAnd then the gramophone began to play.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
“Jones” was the “everyman” that appeared in a whole number of Music Hall songs of the turn-of-the-century. Here he features in one of Florrie Forde<\/a>‘s best remembered songs, although strictly speaking I suspect people remember the chorus and little else. A recording or download of this song can be purchased from Windyridge CDs.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not widely sung by latter-day folk singers, but still heard occasionally in the pubs and clubs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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